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VDS - Giro Donne mini competition - Barbie Barbie presents the Grand prizes!!!
One of my tasks for the year was to collect swag to give away as grand prizes for the season-long Virtual Directeur Sportif competition. I thought it was about time I showed you what we had, as there is going to be a mini competition - with prizes for the 3 Virtual DSs whose teams do best in the...
VDS Smack Thread
Can I just say that Elvisgoat is dead f(*&^ing last in the Editors' League? Can I say that? Oh, and guess how many points he has. Let's just say it's a number that resembles the first initial of his favorite Spanish sprinter. 0scar Freire. Ah... I love this time of year. When I can crow...
Virtual Directeur Sportif Impending Deadline Alert!
Time's up! EDIT- Yo! Get your team in pronto! You got like three hours by my clock to submit your team! I'm talking to YOU Lurker McLurkerson! And you, you and you Grater, rothko, mafra, Tommy Ventoux, and discolite! And were the **** is the Bruce gap now Bruce Suomi? Where's your team? Don't...
The Podium Cafe 2011 Men's Race Calendar
Download a copy of the Podium Cafe 2011 Men's Race Calendar (pdf). Or, journey below the fold to view it in all its colorful glory. Many thanks to WaterGirl for her work in putting the calendar together. A women's version is coming soon!
How to fill that 5-rider-but-only-5-points-left gap - some WVDS Stocking Fillers
If you’ve had even a quick look at the way we priced riders, you will have seen that the cost between the top and the bottom is an awful lot bigger than in the men’s game. There’s a simple enough reason for that: the season is a lot smaller, there are far fewer race clashes, and there’s not much...
Virtual Directeur Sportif '11: News and Notes
First, a reminder: last week we announced the kickoff of our 2011 Year-Long Virtual Directeur Sportif competition. The short of it is, for the low low low cost of... nothing, you can play along with the Cafe folks here in a seasonal fantasy competition like no other. For more rules and...
VDS 2011: Time To Come Out And Play!
[For maximum effect, open this link in another window and then commence reading this post. Trust me :)] After some weeks of rather cryptic discussion, it is finally that time. The 2011 Podium Cafe Virtual Directeur Sportif starts now! Actually we flipped the switch overnight but we're telling you...
Podium Café 2010 Women Rider Rankings – Part 2: Stage Races
It was a bit of a surprise to see that Marianne Vos wasn’t in first place in the rankings I drew up for one day races, but when we look at what went on in the stage races then the natural order of thigs re-asserts itself. If you think that you’ve found a little bit of ground that...
VDS Vuelta a Espana Smack Thread and Update
Getting toward Business Time with VDS this year and you know what that means- a quick update of course and folks here laying the smack with what their team has got in the last huge VDS point haul of the year. )Of course the two Worlds races and Lombardia will shake things up too...) So where do we...
'10 VDS Year Long Comp: Post-Tour Update!
Tedvdw had this in the last Tour live thread, but let's put this out front and center because there's an interesting thing going on. First, the top ten points earners in the Tour: 1. afx237vi The Hamsterdam Hoppers 21502. SirChristopher Fides Fidelity Full Faith &...
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